Dictionary of Portuguese Loanwords in the Languages of Sub-Saharan Africa

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54922-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 40, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 742 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture

The main purpose of this dictionary is twofold. On the one hand, it provides the scholar of African studies with a tool to identify the possible Portuguese origin of terms present in African languages and, on the other, it offers those who are interested in Portuguese culture an overview of the presence of its lexicon in African languages. No doubt the Portuguese were among the first Europeans to explore the world outside of Europe, and as such they were also the first to introduce that world to European concepts and words.This book is the result of a long and detailed work on texts in African languages, as also shown by the rich bibliography in the dictionary.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baldi, Sergio

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Lexikologie, Lexikographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Mehrsprachige Wörterbücher

Über Autor(innen)

Sergio Baldi, Ph.D. (1983), New Sorbonne University Paris 3 (1983), was a professor at University of Naples "L'Orientale" for over forty years. He taught Hausa language and literature. He has mainly published two dictionaries on Arabic loans in African languages and numerous articles on language contacts in the Sudanese-Saharan area.